[Greasemonkey] A Google/del.icio.us userscript idea

[Dan Phiffer]

Hello list,

Just curious if this has been written already, and if not what people  
think of the idea. I've recently begun graduate school at NYU's ITP  
program, which has led to a general decline in my ability to keep up- 
to-date with what's going down on the various list-serves.

One of our profs at ITP, Clay Shirky, has a saying about tagging  
things -- that it's ultimately about "keeping found things found." I  
still primarily use Google to find things, so why not take my search  
terms and feed them into some tagged bookmarking tool -- del.icio.us  
is what I use for that. So I'm thinking of a simple hack that  
combines those two services.

Use case: I search for "tuna sandwich" and Google brings up http:// 
www.starkist.com/recipes/sandwiches/classictuna.html among a host of  
other tuna-related links. A Greasemonkey script pays attention to  
which link I click on and upon the click event, bookmarks this page  
with the tags "tuna" and "sandwich".

Perhaps a more advanced version would allow you to specify which  
del.icio.us account to post to (I'd see an anonymous shared account  
working best at first), and allowing one to turn the automatic  
bookmarking off or on somewhat easily.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,
-Dan